VakAttack

Is my old email good?

Sure thing, man. Sorry you're bit going to participate, but if you change your mind, let us know!

Why are you out? Any accommodation that would make it possible for you to participate?

I believe we have room, but I'll check the list in a bit.

We can do the draft thread here or in the dedicated fantasy wrestling forum. Plus we'll have the actual Google doc as well. I think someone said 930 EST worked better for them also, so we could do that.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2023-03-07/ncaa-announces-large-selections-2023-division-i-wrestling-championships

That's my preference. I'm just waiting on confirmation from the other participants. Logging in from my family vacation in London may or may not be possible.

https://twitter.com/DrewBlogz/status/1632159721120489480?s=20

If that time doesn't work for people, that's OK. I'll still be the bank, and you guys can play.

I'm going to be in London.

I'll add @GreatWhiteNorth I'm thinking we do this either Wednesday evening or Thursday during the day or evening. I would say start time around 9 EST works best for me in the evenings.

I agree and hope common sense prevails. I won't be TOO mad about it as long as KOT is opposite Carr, but, rightfully speaking, I think Carr and KOT are the top two guys and seeds should reflect as much.

I guess we're just on different sides of this debate. That's fine. Maybe college wrestling needs some form of continuation to make it more clear.

Again, this is subjective, though. Haines got planted by a guy with a body lock. Do you think that's truly more control than a guy who has two ankles and the rest of your body is untouched? I don't.

...I think Hamiti might get the 2 seed over O'Toole.

Not really; if one wrestler is attacking so much (like Hamiti last night, or Brooks against Romero as well) the other guy has no time to initiate their own attacks.

This rule is, by definition, amorphous and up to interpretation. Unless you have a vested interest in the party getting taken down, we should all want that Robb-Haines situation to be called a TD. I hate to side with the pastry, but his example is a solid one: if Robb grabs both ankles and Haines falls on his butt and they slide out of bounds, that would be called a TD. This is even more clear control than that. I clearly have no vested interest, I have no love for Penn State and half of my posts now are in response to some goof telling me I'm a dumb shit for saying Iowa is better than Nebraska as they have no beaten them by 28 in their head to head dual and 30 in this tournament. This is not a "bad rule, correct call" situation since the rule is, inherently, not bright line; it's subjective.

They just had Kemermer leave, who was very offfensive, and Desanto, maybe the most offensive wrestler in history (in terms of output). Kennedy is typically a high output wrestler (although I agree he wasn't against Hamiti last night). Then you have Siebrecht and Cass, who are two completely different types of wrestlers, but also offensive. They do tend to gravitate towards the brawler types, though.

Because the action is not as enjoyable to watch, and the rules either need to be enforced or changed to encourage action. Some wrestling podcast I was listening to earnestly described a 6-5 match as a shootout!

This you? So is that a no on the bet?

Care to make a wager? You're 0-2 on your predictions thus far re: Iowa-Nebraska, and you mysteriously disappeared after my last offer to place a wager.

Is this a bit? It feels like it's a bit at this point.

This TD has reaction time, it's not like the hand touch situation.

Never change, always have this insane energy on everything, lol. Iowa just beat Nebraska by 30 points. Which is SLIGHTLY more points than they won the dual by.

If I'm misremembering the first matchup in the dual, then I'll eat that one.